Title: Re: Keeping Tabb
Greetings economists,
It is distressing to hear calls for ending this thread when I haven't had a chance to elaborate on what Max replied. Where Mine Aysen Doyran observes in agreement with me,
Mine,
I am not a party to debate, but this kind of *suggestion*
Carrol Cox wrote:
> Sufferers from schizophrenia are people, not automobiles off an assembly
> line that can be taken to the shop. Even were one to get his/her schizophrenia
> under complete control past episodes would be part of the history which
> he/she is.
and later endorsed the following cl
Brad De Long wrote:
> [SNIP]
> >
> >Schizophrenic people would generally like not to be schizophrenic (you ask
The phrase "schizophrenic people" is itself objectionable. Just as tubercular
people or influenza people would be silly and/or (under some cultural
contexts) offensive. And since a nu
The
>vast majority of people understand 'schizophrenia' as 'split personality',
Say, rather, that the colloquial English definition of the word
"schizophrenia"--as split personality or cognitive dissonance or a
failure to recognize that beliefs X and Y cannot both be true--has
nothing to do
>G'day Carrol,
>
>>Yes. I believe some other poster tried to confuse issues by
>>claiming that when originally coined the word was intended
>>to mean "split mind," but the claim is pointless. There is no
>>significant sense in which schizophrenia is characterized
>>by a "split mind," and the use o
G'day Carrol,
>Yes. I believe some other poster tried to confuse issues by
>claiming that when originally coined the word was intended
>to mean "split mind," but the claim is pointless. There is no
>significant sense in which schizophrenia is characterized
>by a "split mind," and the use of the t
Doyle Saylor wrote:
>
> MBS
> More schizophrenia here, I think.
>
> Doyle
> The phrase is anti-disabled.
Yes. I believe some other poster tried to confuse issues by
claiming that when originally coined the word was intended
to mean "split mind," but the claim is pointless. There is no
significan
MBS
More schizophrenia here, I think.
Doyle
The phrase is anti-disabled. . . . But I don't think you have the foggiest
notion what schizophrenia is. So when you want to characterize
non-schizophrenic persons this way, you want as usual to make the points,
>>
Nice to hear from you again
Max wrote:
Tabb and others are troubled by the anti-communist overtones
of the China/WTO campaign and find it unpleasant to look at
the real state of labor and human rights in China. We seem
stuck in the old trap of apologizing for transgressions of
really-existing communism in
the belief or hop
Title: Re: [PEN-L:17522] Re: Keeping Tabb
G'day Doyle,
You tax Max thus:
>>More schizophrenia here, I think.
>The phrase is anti-disabled. ÝYou know (I assume you are ignorant of the movement, the phrase "you know" is just a >writing tic) this country had a disabi
Title: Re: Keeping Tabb
Greetings Economists,
MBS writes in his usual fashion,
Sure if we take the latter point literally, China has not been the destination of many runaway U.S. shops. But China is at once a real component of a globalization process, and politically symbolic of the
I went to the MR site looking for Tabb's article,
preparing to dismember it. In fact I agree with
90 percent of it. In passing I want to note that
Tabb's reporting of polling results does not jive
well with SP's paraphrasing. The public does think
globalization is a problem for living standards
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